木曽海道六拾九次之内 洗馬|Senba Station
ca. 1836
Medium
Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
Dimensions
8 3/4 x 13 3/4 in. (22.2 x 34.9 cm)
Classification
Prints
Culture & Period
Japan · Edo period (1615–1868)
Department
Asian Art
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Howard Mansfield Collection, Purchase, Rogers Fund, 1936
Accession Number
JP2542
Tags
Art Historical Context
Welcome to the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Asian Art collection, where Utagawa Hiroshige *Senba Station* from *The Sixty-nine Stations of the Kiso Kō* (ca. 1836) transports us along one of Japan's historic post roads. This woodblock print captures the bustling Senba Station on the Kiso Kaidō, an inland route paralleling the more famous Tōkaid highway during the Edo period (1615–1868). Hiroshige, a of the ukiyo-e ("pictures of the floating world") tradition, vividly depicts travelers, boats on a rushing river, and dramatic landscapes, evoking the perils and beauty of pilgrimage and commerce in...
About the Artist
Utagawa Hiroshige · 1826–1869
Utagawa Hiroshige (1797–1858), born Andō Tokutarō, was the last great master of Japanese ukiyo-e woodblock printmaking and one of the most influential landscape artists in history. Born in Edo (modern Tokyo) into a low-ranking samurai family serving as fire wardens, Hiroshige transformed landscape printmaking into a poetic meditation on nature, weather, and everyday life. His revolutionary approac...